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Corporate "MLK" tweets listed next to their donations to GOP voter suppression efforts
@Judd Legum:
1. This will be a thread of corporations that are "honoring" MLK Jr on Twitter today but donated to the @NRSC in the last year, supporting a caucus that is filibustering voting rights and a chair (@SenRickScott) who voted to overturn the last electionFollow along if interested
Threader link because twitter sucks.
This effort is disingenuous to me. Most donations are $15 k to the nrsc. I assume that’s some kind of cap, and probably less than two bits to a fortune 1000 firm.
Also, for their many ills, large American corps have done a decent-ish job of integrating up to the middle management level.
This is not to say we shouldn’t identify and call out hypocrisy or the misappropriation of cultural icons i. The service of, ahem, whitewashing poor corporate behavior.
$15k is generally the max legal contribution to a multicandidate national PAC (there are ways around the limit). This can be viewed one of two ways, in my opinion:
It's a mere $15k from Fortune 1000 firms that likely spend more on coffee each day. Which can be read as a nothing of note.
It's the maximum allowed donation. Which can be read as them saying I'd donate more to your racist cause if I was legally able to do so.